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PROSTHETICS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prosthetics mean?
• PROSTHETICS (noun)
The noun PROSTHETICS has 1 sense:
1. the branch of medicine dealing with the production and use of artificial body parts
Familiarity information: PROSTHETICS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of medicine dealing with the production and use of artificial body parts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("prosthetics" is a kind of...):
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Derivation:
prosthetic (of or relating to prosthetics)
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